Former video vixen, model and television host Melyssa Ford joins the cast of Bravo’s new series Blood, Sweat and Heels. Ford is joined by a group of women trying to breakout in the entertainment industry in the cutthroat atmosphere of New York. It’s been a long journey for Ford following her modeling career. Her personal and career struggles have lead her to lose what fortune she had amassed wearing skimpy clothes on the covers of men’s magazines. Today she is only worth $50K. In the series she claimed she filed for bankruptcy. But after earning between $3,000-$5,000 for appearances and photo sessions what could have happened off camera to lead her to financial ruin? But she did manage to turn her life around and have a growing career in Real Estate. Like most in the industry this story is all to common.